On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 05:18:21PM +0100, Martin Trautmann wrote: > US: 1,000.00 m = 1 km > DE: 1.000,00 m = 1 km > 1 000.00 m = 1 km ... my recommendation That's locale specific. Just put it in the form that's easiest for a computer (ie without seperator) and let renderers/editors render it as desired by the user. cu bart